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Log parsing, the process of converting raw log messages into structured formats, is an important initial step for automated analysis of logs of large-scale software systems. Traditional log parsers often rely on heuristics or handcrafted…

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System-generated logs are typically converted into categorical log templates through parsing. These templates are crucial for generating actionable insights in various downstream tasks. However, existing parsers often fail to capture…

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Parser-based log compression, which separates static templates from dynamic variables, is a promising approach to exploit the unique structure of log data. However, its performance on complex production logs is often unsatisfactory. This…

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Logging code is written by developers to capture system runtime behavior and plays a vital role in debugging, performance analysis, and system monitoring. However, defects in logging code can undermine the usefulness of logs and lead to…

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Logs provide valuable insights into system runtime and assist in software development and maintenance. Log parsing, which converts semi-structured log data into structured log data, is often the first step in automated log analysis. Given…

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Software systems log massive amounts of data, recording important runtime information. Such logs are used, for example, for log-based anomaly detection, which aims to automatically detect abnormal behaviors of the system under analysis by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zanis Ali Khan , Donghwan Shin , Domenico Bianculli , Lionel Briand

Logs are imperative in the development and maintenance process of many software systems. They record detailed runtime information that allows developers and support engineers to monitor their systems and dissect anomalous behaviors and…

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Log data have facilitated various tasks of software development and maintenance, such as testing, debugging and diagnosing. Due to the unstructured nature of logs, log parsing is typically required to transform log messages into structured…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhihan Jiang , Jinyang Liu , Junjie Huang , Yichen Li , Yintong Huo , Jiazhen Gu , Zhuangbin Chen , Jieming Zhu , Michael R. Lyu

Modern information and communication systems have become increasingly challenging to manage. The ubiquitous system logs contain plentiful information and are thus widely exploited as an alternative source for system management. As log files…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Tianzhu Zhang , Han Qiu , Gabriele Castellano , Myriana Rifai , Chung Shue Chen , Fabio Pianese

Due to the sheer size of software logs, developers rely on automated log analysis. Log parsing, which parses semi-structured logs into a structured format, is a prerequisite of automated log analysis. However, existing log parsers are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yifan Wu , Bingxu Chai , Siyu Yu , Ying Li , Pinjia He , Wei Jiang , Jianguo Li

Logs are important in modern software development with runtime information. Log parsing is the first step in many log-based analyses, that involve extracting structured information from unstructured log data. Traditional log parsers face…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zeyang Ma , An Ran Chen , Dong Jae Kim , Tse-Hsun Chen , Shaowei Wang

Log parsing is a fundamental step in log analysis, partitioning raw logs into constant templates and dynamic variables. While recent semantic-based parsers leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit superior generalizability over…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Minxing Wang , Yintong Huo

Modern distributed systems produce massive, heterogeneous logs essential for reliability, security, and anomaly detection. Converting these free-form messages into structured templates (log parsing) is challenging due to evolving formats…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Amir Shetaia , Sean Kauffman

Logging statements are essential for software debugging and maintenance. However, existing approaches to automatic logging generation rely on static analysis and produce statements in a single pass without considering runtime behavior. They…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xin Wang , Yang Feng , Jiaoxiao Qian , Yang Zhang , Zhenhao Li , Zishuo Ding

Large-scale software systems generate vast volumes of system logs that are essential for monitoring, diagnosing, and performance optimization. However, the unstructured nature and ever-growing scale of these logs present significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Shu-Wei Huang , Xingfang Wu , Heng Li

Software logs play an essential role in ensuring the reliability and maintainability of large-scale software systems, as they are often the sole source of runtime information. Log parsing, which converts raw log messages into structured…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Van-Hoang Le , Hongyu Zhang

Log data provides crucial insights for tasks like monitoring, root cause analysis, and anomaly detection. Due to the vast volume of logs, automated log parsing is essential to transform semi-structured log messages into structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Viktor Beck , Max Landauer , Markus Wurzenberger , Florian Skopik , Andreas Rauber

Logs produced by extensive software systems are integral to monitoring system behaviors. Advanced log analysis facilitates the detection, alerting, and diagnosis of system faults. Log parsing, which entails transforming raw log messages…

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Prompt learning is an effective way to exploit the potential of large-scale pre-trained foundational models. Continuous prompts parameterize context tokens in prompts by turning them into differentiable vectors. Deep continuous prompts…

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Logs are an essential source of information for people to understand the running status of a software system. Due to the evolving modern software architecture and maintenance methods, more research efforts have been devoted to automated log…

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